THE EASE & JOY OF MORNINGS (December 2018)

Join Kozan for “Ease and Joy of Mornings,” December 16—a quiet morning designed to introduce you to the art of zazen. It is an ideal entryway for beginners and even intermediate or long-time meditators who want a refresher course on this “dharma gate of joy and ease” as described by Zen Master, Dogen-Zenji.

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Episode Description: Dr. Epel shares her intriguing work regarding our emotional ecosystem. She opens the discussion with a quote by Lewis Thomas: “We are symbiotic creatures and we are interdependent upon the rest of the world. Are cells are not ours; they are a mix of creatures.” Our well-being, through our extended mind, also shapes the health of these microbiota and mitochondria. Her research demonstrates the positive and negative impact on these microorganisms stemming from a smile or scowl; massive-scale networks of emotional influence, e.g., Facebook; meditation practice; as well as emotional arousal by a stimulus. A prime mechanism for most of these effects is the telomere, the protective end of a strand of DNA, found in every cell, which seems to be very sensitively influenced by (and influencing of) our social stress or well-being.

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